Bored with breakfast? Try this maple, almond and pumpkin seed granola!
Avoid all the hidden nasty ingredients in supermarket granola and make it yourself B-)
It is SO easy and SO quick!
Avoid all the hidden nasty ingredients in supermarket granola and make it yourself B-)
It is SO easy and SO quick!
Do you feel like you begin the week with such good intentions to exercise and keep fit and then as the week goes by, things just don’t work out how you want them to? Do you feel like your lifestyle is incompatible with your health and fitness goals? Here are some top tips on how to turn your intentions into action and your frustrations into SUCCESS:
In the gym nearly EVERY morning, doing classes back to back, training well over 8 hours a week – this was me five years ago.
Did my weight ever change? No.
Did my measurements ever go down? No.
Did my clothes size ever change? No.
Did it make me strong? Inevitably, over time I grew muscle.
Was I exhausted? Yes.
Did I feel good? No.
Was I happy? Not really. The irony being that because I wasn’t getting the results I wanted, I wanted to do more and always made plans to do more. Never did occur to me that actually doing less would serve my happiness and goals better.
For 8 years, I bounced from diet to diet- either steering the wagon or very much being dragged along behind by my ankle! I was always waiting for the moment I would feel elation like the feeling at the top of the mountain when you think “I’ve made it!” But I never got this feeling, because you can always think of ways in which you could be better and you can fantasise about how much happier you would be if you were skinnier, more toned, more this, less that etc. But actually I came to realise that the time to love yourself -and enjoy being you- is actually now.
Thai Yoga massage is one of those rare things that is amazing but still good…
The summer is always amazing for doing fun things and spending long days travelling, being in the great outdoors and seeing lots of family and friends. With kids off school and long work days, many of us will be approaching September feeling happy but somewhat exhausted! DO NOT FEAR, some therapy is here!
I am offering a 10% discount (£81 for two) when you book and have two treatments in the months of September and October! This means you can have them as and when you like over the 8 weeks or alternatively, share the luxury with your partner/friend and enjoy an hour massage each, back to back. (more…)
On a mission of weight loss, the majority of us have tried a diet of some sort at one point or another – we may have lasted hours, days or maybe a couple of weeks at best. Predictably, we can’t maintain the diet and we fall off the wagon with limbs flailing – probably into a large vat of gin or melted chocolate for those more that way inclined! We then hate and slate ourselves for being weak or alternatively concoct a multitude of made up stories as to why it didn’t work… (more…)
Running is amazing cardiovascular work and is also great for calorie burning and stress release – the only downside is, it can make you very tight! After running or training intensively, you may well end up less flexible than when you started. Here are 5 yoga poses that will stretch your tight muscles and will feel so good, you will want to do them again and again!
In January this year, I realised that I needed help to get “my old self back” – I’d well and truly fallen off the “wellbeing wagon” – the usual suspects – takeaways, convenience meals, snacks, way too much wine and with excessive working to top it off – I felt as though I had lost control of me!!
Over the years, I’ve been pretty self motivated to eat well and exercise – I’ve never been into fad diets, but more so healthy living based on the 80/20 rule. But this time, I’d gained way too much weight, felt unhealthy, groggy and needed help to get back on track! (more…)